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Post 2 Dear SrivaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

 

In the previous post, we saw how raagam selection is justified, when and how 
raama protected his own army exhibiting his 'baaNa souryam' in the pallavi of 
the saavEri raaga thyaagaraaja krithi. Let us continue the points on the 
anupallavi of krithi now. First the anupallavi - just for recollection 

 

bhaamaku aasaabaDu raavaNa moola 

balamula nEla goola jEyu nija  - raama baaNa

 

meaning: the inner circle army of that raavaNaa, who desired seethaa, was 
completely thrashed and destroyed of their strength - oh, that true raamaa's 
bow  [hey mind - - what can] 

 

Point: 'destroyed of their strength' - what was the strength and how this 
'balam' was destroyed? Unless this is justified by a cross-reference to slokams 
of vaalmeeki, perhaps you may feel it is simple poetic license to exaggerate 
and not get convinced. So let us see the slokams of sage vaalmeeki - 

 

aneekam dhasa saahasram rathhaanaam vaatharamhasaam

ashtaa dhasa sahasraaNi kunjaraaNaam tharasvinaam || 6-94-31

 

chathur dhasa sahasraaNi saarOhaaNaam cha vaajinaam |

poorNE satha sahasrE dhvE raakshasaanaam padhaathinaam || 6-94-32

 

dhivasasyaashtamE bhaagE sarair agni sikha upamai: 

hathaani EkEnE raamENa rakshasaam kaamaroopiNaam || 6-94-33

 

combined meaning of above 3 slokams: sri raama, single handedly destroyed in 
one and half hour [one muhoortham] time, with his fire spitting arrows, 

§         14000 chariots having speed of air, 

§         18000 elephants of good strength, 

§         14000 soldier mounted horses, 

§         200 000 soldiers who can disguise themselves in any shape - 
[kaalaatpadai - foot soldiers] [who can take different roopam] .

 

[as already stated 6 is yudhdha kaaNdam - 94 sargam number, 31 to 33 slokam 
numbers]

[Perhaps this may be greater in magnitude than the kara dhooshaNa vadham in the 
aaraNyam, for there was 14000 soldiers only. Further this is the special inner 
core force, which was described as moola balam. Kara's forces was more an 
ordinary one compared to this force.]

 

Now charaNam of the krithi: 

charaNam:- 

thammuDu baDalina vELa suraripu 

themmani chakkera pancheeyaga gani 

lemmanuchunu indhira ari balka 

samayammani lEvagaa 

 

sammathithO nilabaDi kOdhaNDa 

poojya ghOshamula asanula jEsi thaa 

nemmadi gala thODunu joochEnuraa 

nijamaina thyaagaraaja nuthudaku sree  - raama baaNa 

 

charaNam first part: when the younger brother lakshmaNa fell unconscious, that 
enemy of dhEvaas raavaNan enjoyed by distributing sweets. [Later] The enemy of 
Indhira [raavaNan] was challenging to get up, raama thought it was time to 
respond and stood up. 

 

charaNam second part: raama stood up with complete determination, with His bow 
twanging like a thunder, He looked at His younger brother [anuja] who follows 
Him subserviently, to such a Lord, truly praised by thyaagaraaja - Hey mind, 
what can....]

 

Point: 

1.      Two incidents are to be seen from yudhdha kaaNdam as basis for this 
charaNam. The enemy dhEvaas is both indhrajith as well raavaNan. When 
indhrajith struck for the first time with naaga paasam - both raama as well 
lakshmaNa fell unconscious and the enemy camp enjoyed that. You all know that 
garudan came and all snakes vanished immediately and both brothers got the 
breath back due to that coming of garudan. On this scene, we enjoyed 
thyaagaraajaa's garuda dhvani krithi 'thathvameruga tharamaa'. Since ST is 
referring lakshmaNa alone fell as 'thammuDu baDalina vELa' - younger brother 
fell, we have to see elsewhere for a reference.

 

2.      That happens later. When raavaNan himself came to the war front [before 
the death of kumbakarnaN and later indhrajith and this moola bala yudhdham 
which we are dealing] he struck lakshmaNa with sakthi aayudham. With this 
'sakthi' strike lakshmaNa alone fell down unconscious. raavaNan wanted to lift 
lakshmaNan and carry away him to his city or camp, but could not do so [refer 
slokams 116, 117 in 59th sargam]. 

 

Immediately hanumaan came there, lifted lakshmana so easily and took lakshmaNa 
to safety. On that occasion raama twanged his bow and returned to war arena and 
hit raavaNan. In this stage vaalmeeki's slokam is just adopted by thyaagaraaja 
in the krithi as above. 

 

jyaasabdham akarOth theevram vajra nishpEsha nisvanam |

giraa gambeerayaa raamaO raakshasEndhram uvaacha ha  || 6- 59-140

 

meaning: raamaa made the twang of the bow as though it is the thunderbolt of 
indhra [vajra aayudham - or aasani] and said to that king of raakshasaas. 

  

[asani = vajrya aayudham or thunder, this is a special usage. 

[In previous post I added one more 'a' in the relevant place which is typo. 
Please excuse me]

another cross reference - chaarvaaka Saila aaSani: = Raamaanuja who is a 
vajraayudha for the mountain of atheism - dhaathee panchakam slokam 1]

 

3.      When raama destroyed the moola balam as described above [3 slokams] 
gandharavaas sidhdhaas maharshis came to the sky and praised raama. That slokam 
is 

 

thathO dhEvaa: sa gandharvaa: sidhDhaascha paramarshaya: |

saaDhu saaDhu ithi raamasya ththkarma samapoojayan || 6-94-37

 

meaning: at that stage gandharvaas, sidhdhaas, and maharshis praised raamaa's 
action as 'well done well done'.

 

As a sort of reply to that praise raama says 

 

Ethath asthrabalam dhivyam mama vaa thrayambakasya vaa || 6-94- 38 part d

 

Meaning: This kind of bowing power I have and Siva has [thrayambaka]

 

In the next slokam 39, vaalmeeki says the dhEva gaNaas praised raama and in 
that siva also is likely to be present. So ST says 'to such a lord truly 
praised by thyaagaraajaa' - we can take for in the next stage, when raavaNa is 
dead there are explicit slokams saying sivan was also there. But here is not 
explicit. So the krithi is just following closely vaalmeeki's version in many 
ways as we have seen here.

 

Dear bhakthaas, enjoy the krithi by reading and understanding the depth to 
which ST follows closely sreemadh raamaayaNam and just not use his poetic 
license alone to do praise raama. [I cannot confidently say listen and enjoy 
the krithi, as this is a rare rendition one.]

 

Dhaasan

Vasudevan m.g.



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